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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:44:37 +0200 Writes off £10.8mThe Identity and Passport Service has written off £10.8m in dropping a scheme for electronic passport applications.… Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:33:33 +0200 £25 Greengestion charge deep-sixedLondon's new mayor, the former knockabout media rascal and MP Boris Johnson, has ended the city government's legal dispute with German luxmobile firm Porsche. Johnson has scrapped plans set by his predecessor Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:30:57 +0200 MPs blame slow improvementsThe Department for Work and Pensions has failed to measure benefit fraud properly because of its slowness to improve IT.… Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:53:07 +0200 Reiser's desperate bid for a reduced sentenceConvicted murderer and, er, file system whiz Hans Reiser today led police to the buried body of his wife Nina Reiser.… Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:15:23 +0200 Er, but Bush already mastered the 'Invent' agendaHaving turned HP into a model of consistency . . . Having morphed HP into a no-nonsense juggernaut . . . Having guided HP through the smoothest mega-merger in history . . . Er, okay. How about - Having rubbed out the Hewlett-Packard brand, the HP Way and HP's competitive position against IBM and Dell, Carly Fiorina would now like to lend her insight gained about running large organizations and alienating as many people as possible to the White House.… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:27:37 +0200 Your manifest error blocks our manifest destinyMicrosoft has opened its promised appeal against a European Union court fine of $1.4bn (899m euros), calling the charge "unreasonable" and "error prone".… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:04:38 +0200 It's all about the energy, stupidAnalysis Just in case we didn't all have enough to panic about these days - what with energy prices, global financial gloom, impending ecopocalypse, terrorism etc - the government says any British trouser not yet besmirched by fear is definitely worn by someone who isn't paying attention. Apart from all of the above, we now face a "food security challenge".… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:48:15 +0200 Privacy campaigners launch Street View ambushGoogle's Street View cars, which grab real photographs of streets and the people in them for the search giant's Maps service, have come under fire from privacy campaigners.… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:37:19 +0200 Brown pushes Greens off plate while slamming food wasteThe government's former chief science adviser Sir David King has said genetically-modified crops represent our best chance for improving yields sufficiently to deal with current food price problems.… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:31:37 +0200 Trojan horse rides roughshod over oppositionBavaria has become the first German state to approve laws that allow police to plant spyware on the PCs of terror suspects.… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:00:00 +0200 Claims targets exceeded, but fee income tinyGovernment plans to position the Identity & Passport Service as the UK's de facto identity services broker seem not to have entirely caught the imagination of the private sector, figures in IPS' annual report and accounts suggest. Although IPS recruited 44 new customers for its Passport Validation Service (PVS), income from this for the year ending March 2008 was only £357,000.… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:47:43 +0200 Military celebrate limited-disaster triumphThe UK Ministry of Defence has received some qualified praise for its ongoing, enormous effort to replace hundreds of different internal IT systems comprising scores of thousands of machines with a single integrated infrastructure.… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:43:11 +0200 Liberties sacrificed for 'an illusion'Interview As polling day approaches for the Howden and Haltemprice by-election, voters and observers are left with an eerie sense of déjà vu as Labour once again refuses to debate its civil liberties record with David Davis.… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:09:13 +0200 Banana republic, sceptic isle reduxPopstar turned humanitarian Bob Geldof has thrown his unkempt weight behind David Davis' by-election campaign.… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:49:35 +0200 Offshoring ahoy!Treasury minister Yvette Cooper yesterday announced a plan to look for wide-ranging cost cuts in government budgets.… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:00:31 +0200 How to prevent more government data disastersA panel of experts in data protection was beaten yesterday by a simple question from the floor: "Can you give us an example of good data security practice by the British Government?"… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:28:31 +0200 Google's privacy comeuppanceIn the ongoing $1bn legal spat between Google and Viacom, a federal judge has ordered the search giant to turn over all existing records of every video viewed on YouTube. That includes user account names and IP addresses.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:44:30 +0200 'Your complaint stands'IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions (PSI) by purchasing the upstart, but the European regulator genie has already slipped out the bottle.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:27:09 +0200 Lawyers brand Hans Reiser 'mentally incompetent'Lawyers for prominent Linux developer Hans Reiser, who was convicted of his wife's murder in April, have written to the trial judge this week to argue that their client may be mentally ill.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:06:09 +0200 'Built on UK success' - have the yanks lost the plot?The UK and US governments are to set up a fast-track scheme for trusted, frequent travellers between the two countries, immigration minister Liam Byrne announced today. So say goodbye to immigration blues? Not so fast - the agreement between the two countries only "sets out the shared determination to develop a swift channel across the two borders for trusted travellers", presumably meaning that it'll be a while yet.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:58:37 +0200 Sharing is caring, says EUHigh-level transatlantic talks on data sharing have hit a snag over EU citizens' right to defend their privacy in US court, the European Commission said in Brussels yesterday.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:40:58 +0200 We should be happy - but we aren'tComment The UK media this morning is alive with "giant carrier" headlines, as the long-awaited contracts for the Royal Navy's new carriers are signed at last. In fact, as some news sources reported at the time, the deals were effectively confirmed six weeks ago, but today is the public announcement.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:55:33 +0200 Who watches the watchmen's mobile phone?Civil liberties groups in the US are demanding that the Department of Justice cough details of its use of mobile phone tracking - particularly how often it's done so without probable cause of a crime being committed.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:01:40 +0200 Contemplating stools for GaiaWho would have guessed that in 2008, a pledge to give British people flushing toilets would be a shock vote winner?… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:10:03 +0200 'Important. If you don't read this, your broadband could be disconnected'The BPI has written to 800 Virgin Media customers warning them to stop sharing music files or risk losing their broadband connection.… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:02:04 +0200 SEC may forgive, but lawyers won't forgetThe US Securities and Exchange Commission may have washed its hands of the Apple stock option backdating affair, but Steve Jobs and company aren't quite clear of the dirt yet.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:45:18 +0200 Not f*ck-up - they can do that alreadyThe UK government is starting a competition to find funky, Web 2.0 ways to mash up its data, man.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:36:36 +0200 'For Your Eyes Only'A former Hewlett-Packard vice president has been charged by US federal prosecutors for allegedly attempting to pass trade secrets from his previous employer, IBM Corp, to senior HP execs.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:41:54 +0200 Copyright ambulance chasers open up new marketThe Central London County Court has ordered four BitTorrent users to pay a video games company £750 interim damages following a landmark victory by no win, no fee copyright lawyers.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:06:33 +0200 And can we mention your border plans are rubbish too?The bosses of the UK's major airlines have attacked plans to force airport workers to enrol in the national ID card scheme, claiming that "the UK aviation industry is being used for political purposes on a project which has questionable public support."* If anything the move, they say, could reduce security by adding a "false sense of security to our processes."… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:19:31 +0200 Seven years and a bioterror defense industry later...When the US Department of Justice agreed to pay Steven J. Hatfill $5.82 million in damages for trashing his life and reputation late last week, it was another big low in the mess that's been the Amerithrax 2001 case. With the de facto exoneration of Hatfill, who had been dubbed a "person of interest" by the FBI, bystanders can conclude the agency has no evidence and no valid notion of who may have been responsible for the mailings of anthrax powder which resulted in five deaths seven years ago.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:00:44 +0200 Home Office: What's it got to do with RIPA?Liberty called for an overhaul of RIPA yesterday after the European Court of Human Rights slapped the UK government over the way it applied the UK's previous interception legislation.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:02:03 +0200 Txt-happy grunts in virtual-keyboard iPhone bitchslapThe world's first unit of digitally networked foot soldiers returns from combat in Iraq this week. Reports have it that the American troops' controversial "Land Warrior" wearable-node technology has changed in both role and configuration during its 15-month baptism of fire. Indications are that the equipment - slated for disposal by army chiefs just last year - has done well enough that it will now live on.… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:08:56 +0200 Too many issues for full confidenceThe body which provided official observers to the London elections has said it was given insufficient evidence to feel confident in the results.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:51:03 +0200 In the sense of expensively but not very usefullyComment Some of the Royal Air Force's new Eurofighter Typhoon jets have today been announced as capable of delivering weapons against ground targets, in addition to their initial role of air-to-air combat.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:41:34 +0200 Megaupload and Rapidshare link site targetedItaly's Guardia di Finanza has shut down forum site Downrevolution.net for offering links to pirated music, video and software hosted on popular filesharing sites.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:43:56 +0200 While Prince Charles runs the Aston on English wineThe French are leading a retreat from the EU’s increasingly out of whack biofuel policy yesterday, as they began their six month presidency of the Brussels talking shop.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:35:02 +0200 French court actseBay must pay £30.6m (€38.8m) in damages to posh handbag group LVMH for allowing fake versions of its designer bags to be sold on the auction site.… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:55:19 +0200 Atom bombs very dangerous, says CND manLast week many Britons were amazed to read in the quality press that the UK's nuclear weapons are thought to have a "design fault" which could see a transport accident detonating multiple warheads in a devastating chain reaction apparently known as "popcorning".… Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:21:51 +0200 Whatever it is. It's illegalThe intellectual haze that envelopes American internet gambling policy thickened the past week, as lawmakers failed to define what exactly constitutes "unlawful" internet gambling. As absurd as it sounds, two years after the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), Congress still can’t make up its collective mind as to what behavior the law is intended to cover.… Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:01:57 +0200 Computer says no...In the week that a Civitas report slammed new government legislation on vetting, the case of John Pinnington provides a scary reminder of where we could soon be heading.… Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:49:50 +0200 Blues Brothers law sought vs al-Qaeda strip-o-bomb-o-gramsIn a move which would, three decades ago, have seen classic movie The Blues Brothers stillborn, British cops and officials are seeking to prevent private sales of ex-police and emergency services vehicles and uniforms.… Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:42:14 +0200 Boffin targets to be missedOne in four state secondary schools do not employ a specialist physics teacher, according to research out today.… Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:02:05 +0200 114 imaginary murderers get off scot freeGordon Brown has been accused of deliberately misleading the public by claiming that not retaining genetic profiles of innocent people on the National DNA Database (NDNAD) would have led to 114 murderers getting away.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:54:42 +0200 A fresh blow to the government, as it wereAnalysis Good news and bad news. This week's government strategy document-cum-consultation on renewable energy, and on how the UK proposes to meet its EU obligation to derive 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, shows clear signs of practicality and joined-up thinking. But making it to the magic 15 requires several desperately optimistic assumptions, and the gloomy subtext is all too evident.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:02:03 +0200 Pitched battle ends domain tussleThe Premier League has won control over the domain premiershiplive.net, which has been used to offer an unauthorised subscription football streaming service.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:46:52 +0200 Lack of local supportCambridgeshire County Council has shelved plans for congestion charging following a lack of local support.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:29 +0200 Job done. Now, let's actually read that reportSweden’s bloggers have blown a gasket over an Estonian MEP's proposal that they and their European kindred spirits should assume some kind of responsibility for their content, forcing the European parliament to rush out a statement saying there were no such plans on the table.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:16:25 +0200 Four months for plodcopter attackA 21-year old man was yesterday sentenced to four months in prison for shining a laser pointer at a police helicopter.… Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:13:38 +0200 Criticises compulsory kids' photocardsLast month Transport for London made it compulsory for children using the network to carry Oyster photocards. This has raised concerns about the amount of data the company is collecting.… |
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